ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2013

Post-sevenses high supper fish'n'chips buttered scone tea naptime.

The Laurel Halo is good but I generally like most of her stuff. It's techno but you can't really dance to it. But it's not idm either.

despite multiple assurances that this laurel halo album was different to the last and that the awful queasy bleating was gone, i never got round to this because the memory of how terrible the last was kept it at the bottom of my to-listen list

If I were ienjoyhotdogs I'd have called him William Onyerbike! !!!!!!!!!

Wtf Quarantine is the best thing she's ever done. Bleating!

Nice to see lots of love for the William Onyeabor here.

Why Go To War is another of my favorites from it

more like Onyeabore xps

I thought Quarantine was great but this is just as good, although very different. What vocals there are on this album are not easily identifiable as such

lex, you might prefer Windflower, which is less of a mashup of styles than One. It's also very pretty but I'm not sure what you'd think of this variety of prettiness:

https://soundcloud.com/suicide-squeeze-records/windflower-by-yamantaka-sonic

The abrupt ending makes more sense in the context of the album.

It's techno but you can't really dance to it. But it's not idm either.

― The Robotic Policeman II (dog latin), Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:14 AM Bookmark

So basically, you're saying it's dumb and you can't dance to it. Thumbs down.

I think I liked this LH more than the last one but I didn't listen to it much.

"Sunlight on the Faded" was a v cool LH non-album track from 2013 though.

Ooh, that Yamantaka will be the first one today to pull me away from Truckfighters!

So far today I voted for Ka (which I didn't expect to place at all) and Rhye. For all the pitting of Rhye and Quadron against each other, I like them about equally and for the same reasons. The whole "Oh no! Quadron good! Rhye bad!" thing just seems silly to me.

Ka is just good rap film noir. Definitely a step up from Grief Pedigree.

The whole "Oh no! Quadron good! Rhye bad!" thing just seems silly to me.

well, this is pretty much a response to the reverse, which was the unsaid subtext all throughout 2013 of rhye getting vastly more press attention and critical love

Never got into the Laurel Halo album. I think it's the only thing she's done so far under her own name that I haven't out & out loved. Hoping that one day she manages to successfully reconcile her techno stuff and her avant-weirdo stuff and her pop stuff cos that record would be a total smasher. This one didn't really have anything for me to grab onto. I keep saying this but everyone should check out her last two EPs cos that is srsly some of her best music.

I would have voted for the William Onyeabor (and Patrick Cowley) but I have a no reissues rule. I listened to that Laurel Halo album last night. Well half of it, it just reminded me of a bad IDM record (sorry, doglatin). I loved "quarantine", I thought that was unique and spellbinding. Bleating, my arse.

http://i.imgur.com/ll4MZCQ.jpg

46 QUADRON Avalanche (378 points, 17 votes)

Spotify

HA

None of you can take away the "Quadron > Rhye" binary from me.

haaaaa

i like quadron album a decent amount. in the thread i called it "lobby music" which is true but also a compliment.

Wish it placed higher though.

I spent a day caning the "Hey Love" video over the weekend - would check out the rest of the album but it's not on Spotify here.

I do think the Laurel Halo record requires total immersion to fully appreciate

quadron, love!

hahaha, such good timing :D

really do love ilm for placing quadron above rhye in both polls. my fourth vote to show - the rest of the album is a lot more relaxed than "hey love" but it's such a lovely stretching-out summer mood

lex does it again

well, this is pretty much a response to the reverse, which was the unsaid subtext all throughout 2013 of rhye getting vastly more press attention and critical love

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:29 AM Bookmark

The inverse, too, although I haven't really been following said press.

The whole "Oh no! Quadron good! Rhye bad!" thing just seems silly to me.

otm

well, this is pretty much a response to the reverse, which was the unsaid subtext all throughout 2013 of rhye getting vastly more press attention and critical love

thing is... u don't have to counter every dumb dichotomy with its equal dumb converse

I really view the two albums as more complimentary than anything. Woman as the winter to Avalanche's summer.

"better off" has a better groove than anything on the rhye record IMO

Avalanche is more of a winter album album for me, really "revealed itself" to me in November/December.

Better than the Curtis Mayfield jack on "Last Dance"? Get out. xp

superior quadron album cuts (hard really to isolate any beyond "hey love" though)

lft
favorite star
neverland

Late to the game but that Waxahatchee album is great! I just saw them again on Sunday night and they were excellent live.

Am I the only one who liked "LFT" and "Favorite Star" wayyyyyyyyyy more than "Hey Love"?

Nope.

Favorite non-single album cut is "Befriend". Coco's vocals on that...

Yeah I'm happy to see this place so high. It's not even just about Rhye beating it on the other lists it's the fact I didn't see it place on a single list. It is such a great album that should have got way more attention.

The Quadron album has been deleted in the UK, pending a reissue in March. If it had still been available on Spotify, I'd most likely have voted for it, as my memories are good ones.

Crush is my favourite song these days just ahead of It's Gonna Get You which always reminds me of Syreeta. There really isn't a bad song though.

The Quadron album has been deleted in the UK, pending a reissue in March. If it had still been available on Spotify, I'd most likely have voted for it, as my memories are good ones.

― mike t-diva

Just saw that on Amazon. It now has a release date of March 24th. Doesn't seem to have any bonus tracks or anything? Wonder if they'll put out Hey Love again and it might actually be a hit this time. Just noticed the first album is out of print now.

Love "Sea Salt" also, some of the vocal runs on that are incredible

i think this is my favourite quadron thing tbqh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYwClBX8bM

http://i.imgur.com/SyMvJL2.jpg

45 ARCADE FIRE Reflektor (383 points, 15 votes)

Spotify

ugh

hideous record

zero opinion tbh

f'sake ilm!

Actually thought this might miss the list. Honestly didn't think that many people rated it.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/fe764be9a1b8243156605349b8b02a02/tumblr_mvo6d580Ko1qdmmiqo1_400.gif